Elvi Saarnio Movies

Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the...

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868....

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the...

The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and...

Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent...

A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina...

Three old men escape from the hospital and travel to Turku in search of one of the mens daughter

A story of the conflict between the old and new orders of living.

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people....

Three Finnish girls travel to Stockholm to look for work. But soon they notice that the big city is not such a great place as they thought. Most of...

A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.

Maria Toikka is called to testify in a trial in which her husband Ville is charged. The assurances show the events that led to the trial from the...

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.

The young Count Martin von Tandenskiöld who has returned from the war is forced into a battle with a Russian colonel after he harasses his bride...

Story of first love affair during summer school holidays, in a pastoral setting.

Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.

In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a...

Musical comedy about two friends trying to advance in music business at any price.